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Research investigating racial disparities in health care and health outcomes is critically important to designing effective interventions to improve health for all. Knowing the demographic characteristics of the study population of interest is a key step in ensuring generalizable…
U.S. children’s hospitals care for many youth with mental health conditions who may exhibit agitated or aggressive behaviors during their hospitalization. Despite their dehumanizing and traumatic effects, physical and pharmacologic restraints are used to manage these behaviors when…
OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between in-person versus telephone-based contact by a resource navigator and caregivers' expressed desire for community-based resources to meet social needs in a pediatric emergency department (PED). METHODS: This retrospective observational…
IMPORTANCE: A rise in pediatric underinsurance during the last decade among households with children with special health care needs (CSHCN) requires a better understanding of which households, by health care burden or income level, have been most impacted. OBJECTIVE: To examine the…
PolicyLab responded to a request for public comment from the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (PA DHS) on the Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver application: “Bridges to Success: Keystones of Health for Pennsylvania.” In their response, PolicyLab experts…
Childhood obesity increased in the first year of COVID-19 with significant disparities across race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Social distancing led to fewer physical activity opportunities but increased screen time and high-calorie food consumption, all co-determined by…
There are gaps in receipt of maternal preventive services in the interconception period. Yet mother–infant dyads have frequent health care visits. Health systems have opportunities to better capitalize on existing visits to address dyad needs, but this possibility has not been fully…
Given recent trends demonstrating increased suicide risk among youth, particularly those from minoritized populations, youth suicide is a major public health concern. Evidence-based practices for the identification and management of youth suicide risk have been developed, yet many…
Health inequities are often driven by population-level social determinants of health, including public policies related to education, housing, and economic security, and by household-level social risks, such as food insecurity and housing instability. Many pediatric health systems…
Increasingly, youth experiencing mental health crises present to acute care medical hospitals and "board" on medical units due to inpatient psychiatric bed shortages. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of children experiencing mental health boarding at a US children's hospital…